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SWEPT FROM A BREAKWATER

Date: Spring 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 615 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2016

PORTHCAWL | 16 DECEMBER
A fisherman was knocked off his feet and dragged into the sea after a large wave swept over a breakwater. Within minutes the crew of Porthcawl’s inshore lifeboat were on their way, and found him drifting a...

Category: Services

Nahula

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 29th of May, 1955, the honorary secretary noticed that one of the yachts in the race round the island had been dismasted. At 10.20 the life-boat Helena Harris-Manchester and District XXXI was...

Elizabeth

Date: March 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 325

— 2nd November. The steamer Elizabeth, of Copenhagen, had run ashore, and the life-boat went to her help, but the crew were rescued by the Board of Trade life-saving rocket apparatus.—Re- wards, £12 1*. 6d..

A Meteor Aircraft

Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex.— At 11.54 on the night of the 26th of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned the Eastbourne life-boat station to say the R.A.F. station at Worthing had reported that two airmen were baling out of a...

Flint Lifeboat Named Marjorie Helen

Date: Winter 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 539

With the ruins of Flint Castle overlooking the proceedings, Eric Bulling handed D class lifeboat Marjorie Helen over to Anthony Oliver, deputy head of fundraising and marketing on 16 November.

This was Eric's second... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Amirante

Date: Winter 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 483

Fishing boat sinks WEYMOUTH LIFEBOAT was asked to launch by Portland Coastguard at 0945 on Monday November 15. 1982, to go to the help of the fishing boat Amirante reported to be taking water four miles south of Portland...

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

Mr. T. E. PURDY, J.P., C.C., has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institu- tion, in recognition of his long and valuable services as Honorary Secretary of the Colwyn Bay Branch, and will be presented with a copy of the Vote...

Category: Awards

Pandora

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At n a.m. on igth April, 1967, news was received that the motor yacht Pandora had broken down about 14 miles south east of Port St. Mary and the freighter Caxton was standing by. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin...

Filey's Boathouse

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

Fi/ey's boathouse is not as old as it looks - it was in fact completed in 1991- and was designed to fit a very restricted site on the promenade, as can be seen in the aerial photographs on page 27.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Kings Cross and Athendale

Date: February 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 309

About mid-day on 13th October, the tug King's Cross entered Scrabster Harbour and reported that she had been taking the steamer Athendale, of North Shields, to Glasgow, to be broken up, but that the tow-rope had parted and the steamer...